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Autistic masking is the act of concealing autistic traits to come across as neurotypical, as if behind a mask. Autistic masking, also referred to as camouflaging, is the conscious or subconscious suppression of autistic behaviors and compensation of difficulties in social interaction by autistic people, with the goal of being perceived as neurotypical.
The term masking was used to describe the act of concealing disgust by Paul Ekman (1972) and Wallace V Friesen (1969). [2] They thought of it as a learned behavior. Lorna Wing proposed that females' higher levels of masking than males led to their underdiagnosing of having autism in 1981.
Autistic burnout is defined as a syndrome of exhaustion, skill loss/regression, and sensory hypersensitivity or intensification of other autistic features. [1] Autistic people commonly say it is caused by prolonged overexertion of one's abilities to cope with life stressors, including lack of accommodations for one's support needs, which tax an autistic person's mental, emotional, physical ...
Niles uses the opportunity to talk more with Matilda about “masking,” a coping mechanism in which people with autism act in specific ways to appear neurotypical.
Alyssa Sadler, of Deer Park, Texas, said her son has a sensory disorder and doesn't like his face touched so he would not wear his mask. 3-year-old with autism and family kicked off Southwest ...
Devon Price is an American social psychologist, blogger, and author focusing on autism. He is best known for his books, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity and Laziness Does Not Exist , as well as for publishing shorter pieces on Medium and Psychology Today .
The movement criticizes therapies and interventions that—implicitly or explicitly—encourage masking behaviors associated with autism and imitating neurotypical social behaviors, [17] [18] as higher tendencies of camouflaging, autistic masking, or passing as neurotypical are associated with worse mental health outcomes according to most ...
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